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>EE is open source It is _not_. You cannot distribute it. That makes it not open source.

So what's the advantage of using Android over straight Linux?

Just curious, is a Go string a C string inside (rune array + nil) or a proper class array? In other words, in a:="b"+"c" IOW, does it implement the Slemiel's painting algorithm or …

>Hasn't happened. Won't happen. I don't know about five years. But in 25 I don't know if you'll be able to differentiate your computer from your (old, dumb) TV, except you'll have …

Not everywhere. CA, for example, doesn't permit them. But companies also have non-compete (or other exclusionary) clauses which are legal outside of anti-trust laws.

>employees weren't allowed to quit In the US you can quit and look for another job, the same way how MS can exit the OS market. The same way MS doesn't leave the OS market (too luc…

The issue is that US workers now compete with the whole world. Until the 70s, the US really had no competition. To compete, you need a stable (legal) system - No one would invest m…

>It's like employers don't even attempt to think about anything from the employee's perspective -- even after they've struggled to fill their own positions. "Cheap business owners"…

Would it be possible to take ebay to a small claims court?

In a library, breaking releases should be far fewer than "regular" feature releases. My point is that if you break code more than a few times in the history of your library, you'll…

The point of Semantic Versioning is to tell you something. So let's say you have Compiler 5.3.2 It means that the important thing is compiler #5. Upgrading from 4 to 5 is a _Big De…

> If you're using a proper type-safe compiled language then most "subtle" breaking changes can't possibly be missed because your code won't compile anymore (assuming you used that …

> I like the idea of Semantic Versioning, but it does cause problems where if I'm going to do several breaking releases one after another I have to keep bumping the major version, …

>There's a reason why the project name doesn't change just because you bumped the major version number. The OP suggested to make an "evergreen" Angular, like an evergreen Chrome. M…

>It's much more reasonable though: they're committed to using Semver, so even a minor breaking change (like upgrading Typescript) will bump the version number. So they're expecting…

I'm not comparing directly, but I want to put our "moral outrage" in perspective. This was the 1700s. People were living on subsistence farming. If you weren't a landowner in Engla…

Well, what do we have nowadays? Want a house? Be a slave to Microsoft for forty years! Want to eat? Be a slave to Google! The poor were more than welcome to stay in England or Germ…

If you don't want to get hacked by visiting a website, use cURL (actually, I think it had a few security bugs, so...) The difference is that websites have rep, and google polices s…

That's also true. Sometimes I suspect the main programmers for Apache2/BSD/MIT licensed works actually hope their works get used by the big guys so they can get employment there. T…

>I've been thinking more and more about how Stallman has blocked perhaps the only effective way to make companies make more open-source software: allow DRM to work properly with op…

Personally, I find people complaining about the GPL's lack of freedom a bit hypocritical. What does the GPL prevent you from doing? As a user, nothing. As far as I (a user) is conc…

IMHO, Stallman made two mistakes: 1. He moved into politics (which is in my HO, one of the failure points of a lot of tech people. Everyone has a right to an opinion, but certain p…

> You're talking about rooting the phone, I guess you want /etc/hosts or something, but you know, even on the desktop that kind of solution requires sudo rights. This one is entire…

What I would personally like (and I'm kind of surprised all projects which tried to implement it died) is a Java -> static exe/elf compiler (sort of like Go) or at least java -> ex…

OpenSSL uses assembly not for speed but for security. You need to make sure algorithms don't "optimize" leaking data. For example, a strcmp on a secret field is insecure because of…